While most of Aotearoa's population are currently sequestered at home due to the month-long Covid-19 lockdown, now's the ideal time to open your ears to new sonic experiences. Jeff Henderson and Riki Gooch's (Cave Circles) autumn North Island tour plans have been sadly put on ice by the outbreak, but even a global pandemic can't stop them from regaling you with the sounds of their collaborative album Duets for Clarinet and Drums, released via Henderson's own imprint iiii Records. Like cosmic wayfarers, the virtuosic pair roam expansive territories on their eleven track instrumental release – locking into Orthrelm-esque high wire minimalism on tracks 5 and 11, conjuring mystical moods on the second track, illustrating pointillistic alien sound shapes on multiple numbers, and providing future scientists with concrete proof of aural telepathy throughout.

<a href="http://iiiirecords.bandcamp.com/album/duets-for-clarinet-and-drums">Duets for Clarinet and Drums by Jeff Henderson/Riki Gooch</a>